Thornton, Lionel Cuthbert, Captain, 51476, 5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters
Awarded the Territorial Decoration
Born: Essex
Residence: Derby
Branch at 1st September 1939: Sherwood Foresters
Died 15th February 1942 aged 37
Son of Thomas and Edith Thornton; husband of Joan Ross Thornton, of Ascot, Berkshire.
Commemorated on the Singapore Memorial


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Derby Evening Telegraph Report - 10 January 1938





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Derby Evening Telegraph Report - 2 June 1938



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Derby Evening Telegraph Report - 13 January 1945


Derby School
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